Conceptual art was the catalyst for the great bureacratic revolution in
museum culture of the 1970s. As such, the culture of museums (what is this?)
was seen as tirelessly recuperating (Marcuse's rather lame concept) the
fruits of alternative, oppositional practices. The ludicrousness of
oppositional practices through art should be clear by now. Much effort has
been expended on trying to explain that the image of art as oppositional is
as much a function of museum culture as the product of over ripe artistic
imaginations. Any culture that proclaims such a separation between theory and practice ought to be avoided.
Michael Corris(InvCollege@aol.com)
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